Basic Signature Tutorial

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As there are alot of people who are not that good with photoshop, I found this old tutorial I made for another site, so I may aswell share it here, as it will help some of you.

This is basically a tutorial which will guide you on how to make si ple but effective signatures. Dont worry, its not hard.

1. Make a new document, around 500x175. Fill it with a colour of your choice. For your first time, I suggest following the tutorial. I made mine a nice grey.
I then went to Filer > Noise > Add Noise. You choose the ammount of noise you think looks good, i cant remember what I used exactly, but dont use too much as it looks silly. I think i used around 4.

You dont have to do this, but I then used a lightning brush and brushed on the side to add some sort of effect. I also added some diagonal bars by using the line and fill tool.

If you do what I did, you should have something like this:

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2. Now you want to find 3 pictures of the superstar/person/topic you want to make a signature of. I went onto WWE.com, and pick 3 images from Kurt angles profile.

I then resized the images so that their height was around 180px. I then Went to Image > Adjustements > Desaturate (CTRL + U) so that the images are now black and white. I then copy and pasted each image onto the Grey background already made. The first pasted one move to the left, the 2nd to the right, and then the 3rd to the middle.

Hopefully, you should have something roughley like this:

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3. Then make sure that on the layer pannel you are on the middle image. Go to Layer > Add Layer Mask > Hide All. Then using the paint brush tool, paint the middle image so that it shows up but fits in with teh other images. As if they were all as one.

It should look like this:

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4. Now merge the 3 image layers together by selecting the top layer (the middle picture) and pressing CTRL+E. This then blends the curent layer with the one below it. Press CTRL+E so that all 3 images are now as one layer. Then go to layer > blending options. Then adjust the opactiy of the images to what you think looks nice, I cant remember what I used, off the top of my head I'm guessing at around 75%.

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5. Now to make the signature abit more intresting, make a new layer (CTRL+SHIT+N) and then use a blood brush and briefly add some blood splatters to your work. (If you dont have blood brushes, you can find some on google by simply typing in "blood brushes for photoshop".) Then adjust the opacity of this layer (Layer > blending options) to what looks nice.

You should have something roughley like this:

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6. Now open up a PSD of the person, this will be your main image. Re-size it so it looks reasonable and add it to your sig. Press CTRL+J to duplicate the layer, then press CTRL+SHIFT+U to desaturate the image. go to Blending options again and lower this layers opacity slightly so it looks kind of cool.

Then simply add some text. I have used the font "DJ Gross" in white, then added a Stroke of grey, of about 3px i think, then added a drop shadow afterwards.

You should have something like this:

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7. Then make a new layer, Press CTRL+A to select all, and go to Edit > stroke. add a 3px white stroke. Then press CTRL+A again, follwed by anotehr stroke. This time make it a 1px black stroke.

Then you should have finnished product slightly like this:

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Its not fantasticly amazing, but its a simple tutorial on how to start making sigs. If it makes you guys feel any better, here is my first sig on photoshop after trying to re-create signatures other people could do.

RandySig.jpg


Lol!!!

Other exmaples of sigs using this technique are:

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e277/joeypoey007/AngleSig.jpg
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e277/joeypoey007/angle.jpg

There are others somewhere, but i cant find them atm, lol.

Anyway, i hope this helps some people, lol!
 

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lol, i member doing that tutorial....WZ was so awesome
 

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Totally, as was Baza (god rest his soul).

..lol.
 

PeepShow

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Pretty dammn good tut. THat should help me nicely. Thanks man :)
 

Wrestling Station

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good contribution. repped.

this should be in the help forum, *moved.
 

Famou$ 187

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Good tut. All I need now is Photoshop but it takes for ever for it to download on my computer. :(
 

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3. Then make sure that on the layer pannel you are on the middle image. Go to Layer > Add Layer Mask > Hide All. Then using the paint brush tool, paint the middle image so that it shows up but fits in with teh other images. As if they were all as one.

Can you plase explain this, i dont get it.
 

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basically when you have your 3 pictures which ever one is in the middle of the 3 should be at the top and you should have that as the layer you are working on, the go to layer>> layer mask>> hide all then work use the eraser around where the image was to make it appear black to appear white to remove....i think...maby the other way round cbf to check.
 

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It won't let me use the eraser though because it says the target layer is hidden?

Do you mean by Hide all that eye icon? because thats all i can find.
 

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not hide all as in click the eye, hide all as in go to layer>>layer mask>> Hide all......theres the two choices hide all or reveal all when using a layer mask.
 

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yo i used this and i think it helped. thanks
 

PeepShow

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Really sorry to bump this thread, but I started following it here for the first time, and I got lost at #3. I did the hiding of it and all, but then use the paint brush? I'm lost at that part. Can you help me out there Butters?
 

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Go to layer mask and select hide all then starts using the paintbrush over where the pic that you hide was and it should start to come up.